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of the Penitentiary plan with one of your Lordships tenants, a
Gardener of the name of Glonie, who did not know the relatio
I bore to it. Beginning the conversation (for he avowed a suspicion
of me on that score) he mentioned it as a remarkable circumstance,
that no part of the land, either is now upon lease, or
has been for these two hundred years. His own part he spoke
of as being 40 acres: (being the upper part on which the
building would be placed) and he applied the same observatio
to the remainder in equal quantity: (which agreeds exactly with
the quantity detailed in the inquest of the jury.) with With respect
of to his own part, I think he can scarcely have been otherwise
than correct, in respect of the regard to a circumstance in which he wa
so highly interested; and that is the only part for which I
should have occasion, before Parliament had had time to
do its office.

I set out with observing, that lease or no lease is immateri
to the present purpose: and so your Lordship will find it to be. Why?
Because the actual immediate possession is equally out of your
Lordships power as landlord to grant, whether there be or be not
a lease, as I will know well knew: that must depend at any rate upon th
occupying Tenants. Without their consent, to whom I well kne
I must have to apply for it after all, that of the landlord wou
in a point of law be unavailing: since a tenant stiled a tenan
at will is not so far at will, as that he can be removed, or his
exclusive possession infringed upon, without a certain interval
of notice: and with the consent of the Tenant on the other hand,
a man might have the use he wanted have the use he wanted wer

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Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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